A piece of heaven :)

Antara perkara yang paling saya rindu kat UK ialah weekly library visits kitorang. Masa mula-mula balik sini saya pergi tengok local library sini dan hampa. Semua buku-buku lama. Langsung tak nampak buku baru. Buku lama yang masih pakai ejaan lama. Pastu banyak pulak kotak-kotak kat tepi rak-rak buku. Mungkin dalam kotak tu buku baru? Tapi tak keluar kotak macam mana? Geram je tengok.

Pastu saya terfikir library universiti suami saya. Saya tanya Papaboyz, ada banyak buku tak kat library universiti? Papaboyz kata buku rujukan banyaklah. Universiti Papaboyz pulak dahla ada kursus-kursus teknikal je. Jadi saya pun tidaklah pergi menjengah. (Silap besar, siapa suruh tanya dia, tempat terakhir akan jumpa dia ialah di library, and definitely we did not first met in a library).

Kemudia minggu lepas saya sedang round ward tengok pesakit. Sampai ke seorang pesakit dan saya berborak dengan dia..

Saya    : Awak kerja kat mana?
Pesakit : Library Univ (univ suami saya)
Saya    : Hmm menarik. Kat situ banyak buku selain buku rujukan student?
Pesakit : Banyaaaaakk! Semua buku English atau Melayu kitorang sentiasa update. Majalah macam-macam kitorang langgan.
Saya    : (rasa nak berhenti round sekarang jugak)

Jadi Ahad 2 hari lepas saya ikut suami ke Universiti sebab dia pindah bilik dan nak kemas bilik dia. Angin dia baik jadi dia setuju jaga budak-budak sementara saya buat rondaan di library pula.

Rasa macam dah lama tak sengih sorang-sorang. Tapi ia perasaan yang tak dapat dikawal pada Ahad lepas. Hehehe. Yeaa! Ada alasan untuk ambil cuti dan ikut Papaboyz pergi kerja ngeeee... 

Best- pencahayaan terbaik. Sofa melepak pun banyak. Student tak ada- diorang cuti semester.

Kumpul-kumpul dulu. Tiba-tiba baru teringat nak tanya limit buku berapa. Nasib baik 20 buku :). What's up with Tony Buzan?

Saja ambil gambar ni nak tunjuk yang Jodi Picoult pun ada yerrr.. Memang impresif koleksi diorang. Ada one wing dedicated for fiction dan famous authors semua banyak. Yippeee!

Pinjam Tony Buzan sebab next month saya ada konferens dengan dia di KL, InsyaAllah. Can't believe my good takdir. Hikhik. Alhamdulillah! (baru tau Tony Buzan ada parenting book)

Buku PTS pun banyak. Yeaa tak payah beli lagi!

New mission. Educating myself on personal finance. Sangat bodoh dalam bab ini.

Sangat gembira sebab dah jumpa library yang best. Nothing could have ruin my excellent mood that day, not even 3 grumpy boys. The only thing is tak ada childrens' section tapi ini kan library universiti nanti pelik pulak kalau ada kan.

The best things in life are free. :)

Masih tersengih sambil taip entri ni.

How's your local library?

Ammar di Pasti

(paksa diri menulis)....

Bukan apa, takut legasi hilang (legasi apanya?) hehe takut nanti tiba2 budak2 membesar menyesal pulak tak keep tract childhood diorang kann...

Tak sempat menulis, belajar ke apa benda lain, blame diri sendiri je lah kan...patutkah saya ada ipad supaya boleh menulis, browse tak kira masa dan tempat? hmmm not yet... i certainly don't need it now. Saya takut saya dah tak pandang sekeliling lagi, sedangkan kita mesti sentiasa melihat semua ciptaan Allah kat dunia ni dan appreciate, kalau boleh dengan mata hati...

OK post ni nak letak gambar Ammar yang sekarang bersekolah di tadika PASTI (Pusat Asuhan Tunas Islam).. Ni rangkaian tadika PAS, tapi tak payah jadi ahli PAS pun boleh hantar anak situ (saya bukan ahli mana2 parti).. Kitorang pilih tadika ni sebab dicadangkan oleh kawan, dan ia dekat, yuran berpatutan dan yang paling penting silibusnya yang impresif (serius!)-- eh tahu tak yang tadika sekarang sangat mahal, macam hantar anak masuk universiti tau. PASTI ni yuran dia rm60 sebulan, oklah tu.. kakak saya hantar anak dia yuran 200 lebih sebulan...*tapi kitorang duduk pekan kecik*

Budak PASTI :)

Tengoklah silibus dia, buku2 semua memang best, ada 1 subjek tertinggal- peribadi Muslim

Ammar tahun ni nak masuk 5 tahun, tugas dia tahun ini ialah tukang siram pokok bunga... papa beli watercan khas untuk dia (biasa berebut dgn si kecik Abid tu)

banyak ni je Mama saya punya herbs garden- kari, pandan, ulam raja, daun selom, daun kunyit

Baju abang pun dia nak kebas jugak

Ammar ni hati dia ada minat pada AlQuran, dia suka baca tak perlu suruh atau paksa, dan tak perlu reward sangat untuk pujuk dia, tiap kali mandi pun dia sendiri ingat ambil wudhu' dan suka solat (gerakan saja, belum tahu baca lagi)...tapi kelemahan dia ialah impulse control- we have to work a lot on your anger management, Ammar..

Kanak2 fitrahnya suka pada kebaikan

Kanak2 memang fitrahnya suka pada kebaikan, pada alam, pada Tuhan, saya selalu kagum dengan fakta ini, memang saya hanya perhatikan anak2 saya saja, (bukanlah nak memuji anak saya, tapi sebab saya tak tinggal bersama kanak2 lain, maka anak saya je lah jadi contohnya), we can learn a lot from them, if we just open our eyes and see...

OK.. till then...!

Still here!

Errr...saya hidup lagi...

tak senonoh je nama blogger tapi lama tak update kan...i busy.. (orang lain tak busy macam saya)

Ni apasal tetiba boleh update pulak? Sebab cuti seminggu, Adam masuk darjah 1, kena lah stand by dia kan..

Ammar & Adam

Cuba cari adam

Beg je dah penuh kerusi

Yeeaa.. lepas rehat, masuk balik bekal..no canteen food for you

How was 2011? As you all know, lots of things happened to our family in 2011.. Cairo/ Sinai..(oops that was Dec 2010--macam baru je kan), the big move, Manchester to Melaka, me started working again, Adam and Ammar started school here, the runaway tenant, a few vacations (Putrajaya-boleh kira tak?, Penang, PD)....all in all we settled down nicely.

But the best thing about 2011 is that I shed off 14 kg!! wakakakaaka... (jadi surirumah memang menggemukkan- kalau malas exercise macam saya)

So I was afraid because my BMI was nearing obesity, i don't want to be fat, slow and lazy, so I joined a free program with sparkpeople.com, followed it to the letter (almost) and reached my target. In the process i learned more about nutrition than what medical school taught me.

One rule that I learned and also applied elsewhere is that if you have a mission, the target and ways to achieve the target has to be outlined clearly, or else it would remain a mission statement. It would not go further than that.

Like when I wanted to change my eating habit, I said to myself, I want to eat 5 portions of fruits and veges a day. If you just make a mental note like that, "eat 5 a day" , very likely you won't achieve your target. How to achieve 5 a day- you must outline clearly. So my regime is, 2 fruits before breakfast- (must), then quarter plate veges at lunch and at dinner, so that makes 4/5, the other 1/5 is anytime in between (brunch, tea, supper, before dinner etc). And my advice is- eat the wajib first (fruits), if you leave it after a meal, quite often you will forget or become too full to take it.

That brings us to what my targets are for 2012....

Later, i think. InsyaAllah. Promised Adam some cookies to bake.

*we already got a tenant, hope she won't give us much problems, will also write few things about this later

Notes to 4 most amazing men :)

Just finished Imam Abu Hanifah. Now starting Imam Maliki.

"Imam Abu Hanifah : A glimpse of your colourful life is an inspiration. Glad I had the chance to walk through it. Your mom- can't get my mind of her. She was the reason all those happened, wasn't it?


Imam Malik : I've already loved you before. A story of you always plays in my head. The one about people asking you to be more zuhud. Hihihi...I know I will love you more. Now reading you :). Happy.


Imam Shafiee : I have always love your poems. And my favourite is 'Let the Days'. I have visited where you were rested. I can't believe I haven't read you before. I thought of jumping straight to you, but the author tells the stories of you and your brothers in chronological order. I have to read them first. I'll get to you soon. You love knowledge more than anyone else. That's why I love you.


Imam Ahmad : Sadly, you are the least I know about. Can't wait to get to know you. Can't wait."

Chaos

 When I graduated in 2004, there were only 12 (if I'm not wrong) medical schools in Malaysia that produce graduates. Now just look at the list. Remember there are graduates from UK, Ireland, India, Egypt, Indonesia and Russia too.

Medical schools that have already produced graduates:

Universiti Malaya
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
International Medical University
Universiti Putra Malaysia
International Islamic University Malaysia
Penang Medical College
UniKL Royal College of Medicine Perak
Melaka-Manipal Medical College
Universiti Malaysia Sabah
Universiti Teknologi MARA
UCSI University
Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology
Monash University Malaysia
Allianze College of Medical Sciences
Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences
Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia

Med schools that will have their first graduates in 2012-2017:


Newcastle University of Medicine Malaysia
MAHSA University College
International Medical School – MSU (IMS-MSU)
Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin
Taylor’s University
SEGi University College
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
Masterskill University College
Perdana University Graduate School of Medicine (PUGSOM)
Perdana University – RCSI
Quest International University Perak
PMC Terengganu
Kolej Universiti Insaniah
Kolej Universiti Antarabangsa Kejururawatan dan Sains Kesihatan (KPJ)
Lincoln University College


Bear in mind that the number of teaching hospitals (University hospitals and General Hospitals) are not increasing as much as the number of medical schools. The number of real life trainers (ie the specialists, surgeons etc) are not increasing much too.

Also, there are a lot of accusations that a lot of corruptions are involved in taking up 'qualified students' and passing the future doctors.

OK I'm not going to question about the intake / qualification of the medical undergraduates, but just looking at the number of medical schools we know that the training in hospitals available is going to be substandard. I know some schools that use mannequins to teach the students how to examine people. In UKM before we never use mannequins. We use breathing, talking subjects.

Now the house officers are going to work in shift system. It is a big change and many specialist/ senior doctors are not happy with it. Their main concern is that who will supervise the young doctors who work in evening or night shift, because the shift system only involve the house officers, not the supervisors.

So I think you readers can imagine the chaos in the Ministry now. For this I advise:

1. Be aware of what is going on with you / your family when you go to seek medical attention. The best is to catch the seniors who are in charge of the ward you are in, and make sure you know the management plan of your illness. You will notice that the juniors are going to be like chipsmores.

2. If you think you see something amiss, make it your responsibility to complain and correct it. About complaining, please don't simply jump on that doctor did not smile (we are human too) or I have to wait 2 hours in a crowded ED. Rather, speak up if nobody do anything when your mother has high fever, or the doctor did not wear a mask when suturing your wound, or nobody take heed of your bleeding pregnant wife. I think you understand.

3. Don't force medical course on your son / daughter if they are the lazy type, the slow type, the i-dont-give-a-damn type, the always-MIA type... even if you can pay for them to pass (not pay to study). It will come back to you.

Cerita Kursus

Semalam saya pergi kursus. Saya paksa diri untuk tulis post ini sebelum 'api' nya padam. Kenal kan Darwisya dan Darwish, adik beradik yg menghafal Quran tu. Umur 3 thn setengah dah hafal seluruh Juz Amma. Mak diorang yang ajar. Mak diorang (Puan Lina) bukan Ustazah, bukan penghafaz Quran juga, bukan surirumah. So macam mana dia buat? Dia selalu cerita kaedah dia dalam blog dia sini. Tapi sekarang dia dah buat kursus juga. Kursus Mengajar Al-Quran kepada Bayi dan Kanak-Kanak. Sebulan sekali je dia buat.

Jadi saya pergi!!! Saya ke Shah Alam tempat dia buat kursus tu, ingatkan saya yg paling jauh, dari Melaka. MasyaAllah, rupa2nya dari JB pun ada, dari Kulim pun ada dan jengjengjeng..dari Bintulu pun ada. Ya, terbang dari Bintulu untuk belajar dari Puan Lina.

Firstly, how is she in person? Pada saya dia biasa2 je (tapi cita2 dan kerja kuat yg luar biasa), dan sangat senang untuk disukai (very likeable). Mind you, saya kalau orang berceramah saya punya habit (yg tak berapa baguslah, saya tau), saya akan sangat skeptikal dan seboleh2nya saya akan cari kenapa saya tak perlu dengar ceramah dia. But as far as I can tell, she spoke from her heart, and her concern (to teach other parents how to teach young kids to read and memorize Quran) is genuine. So we all enjoyed and benefited a lot.

Saya dan Puan Lina (Mama Darwisya dan Darwish)

Kenapa saya pergi? Sebenarnya saya rasa saya dah stuck dengan progress budak2 ni. Adam dah Iqra' 4 dan Ammar dah Iqra' 2, tapi hafazan tak gerak-gerak. Apa yang saya kejar? Saya takut saya terlepas golden period diorang semasa otak mereka seperti sponge ini. Saya juga takut saya mati sebelum saya sempat developkan jiwa Quran dalam diri mereka. Apa lagi yang saya boleh tinggalkan untuk mereka kalau bukan jiwa itu kerana tiada siapa yang dapat merampasnya dari mereka. Ia insurans terpenting mereka. Apa saja yang terjadi pada mereka di dunia ini kalau mereka berjiwa Quran tentu mereka akan selamat di Akhirat. Lagi satu saya risau tengok mereka suka sangat main game. Dan saya perlukan kaedah baru / lain yang boleh optimize masa saya yg dah tak berapa nak cukup sejak saya kerja semula ni.

Banyak yang saya belajar. Bukan saja dari Puan Lina tapi juga dari ibu bapa lain. Sebab sesi pertama ialah sesi berkenalan di mana kami semua perkenalkan diri dan ceritakan perkembangan Quran anak2. Saya memang impress dengan ibu bapa lain. Bilik seminar itu penuh hingga tak cukup meja, ada yang kena duduk di tengah2 antara meja juga. Nasib baik saya sampai awal, dapat duduk depan. Ramai juga yang walk-in, sepatutnya kena booking online.

Apa yang saya belajar?

1. Mesti ada visi untuk anak. Contoh (bukan saya, rekaan je): saya mahu anak jadi peguam yang hafaz Quran. Ok, saya punya visi cuma 1 iaitu semua kami ahli Jannatul Firdaus tapi ini agak general sebenarnya. Saya belum betul2 fikir apa plan spesifik untuk anak2 saya. Mungkin di sini silap saya. Goal tak ada. Macam Puan Lina, apabila Darwisya masuk 6 tahun dia akan dihantar ke Sekolah Tahfiz selama 2 tahun untuk dapatkan keseluruhan Al-Quran, kemudian masuk darjah dua. Darjah 1 dikira sebagai homeschooling.

2. Bagaimana nak kenal anak kita jenis learner yang macam mana dan apa cara terbaik untuk mereka.

3. Bagaimana nak masukkan Al-Quran ke subconscious mind mereka.

4. Halangan2 dan cara2 atasi halangan. Ya Allah.. banyaknya..yelah, syaitan kan tak suka orang belajar Quran. Kalau buat benda tak elok dia tak halang, kan. Pentinglah bab ni.

5. Pemakanan untuk budak2 yang menghafaz Quran.

6. Ehh banyak lagilah..tak larat nak tulis semua.

Alat bantu mengajar yang Puan Lina guna

Antara peserta kursus

Saya beli untuk Abid.

I have a dream

Kata2 cikgu matematik saya dulu: "Some people have dreams, while others wake up and realize them"

Would like to share a message from my Arabic teacher:




Work hard. Or you deserved to be left behind. (talking to myself)